Verse Wisconsin co-editors Sarah Busse and Wendy Vardaman joined six other poets—Karl Elder, Fabu, Susan Firer, Max Garland, Derrick Harriell, and John Koethe—for a stellar Book Festival reading at Avol’s Bookstore in downtown Madison on Thursday, September 30th. Below is a video of the closing poem of the evening, a new work, John Koethe’s elegiac meditation on the 1960s, “ROTC Kills.” Wendy Vardaman’s interview with Koethe in the latest issue of Verse Wisconsin can be found online at the VW website.